Editor’s word: The beneath recap comprises spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 3 Episode 5.

After final week’s explosive episode chock filled with twists, cliffhangers, and surprising exits, Yellowjackets Season 3’s fifth episode is tasked with giving us some solutions. Lottie’s (Simone Kessell) demise is arguably essentially the most surprising second of Episode 4, and although it’s clear the circumstances behind it can steadily be revealed, it appears the present-day characters are bent on discovering out what occurred. The actual star of the collection this week, nevertheless, is the Coach Scott (Steven Krueger) storyline. Now that he is been sentenced to demise, he’s a sitting duck because the group struggles to come back to phrases with their determination. Feelings are excessive in Episode 5, titled “Did Tai Do That?” — not only for the characters, but additionally for these of us watching, as a result of issues are getting heavy.

‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Episode 5 Says Farewell to Lottie Matthews

After the surprising ultimate moments of Episode 4, during which we found Lottie was useless, this week’s installment of Yellowjackets fittingly begins within the morgue — and who else can be visiting the morgue aside from Misty (Christina Ricci)? She’s there as a result of she needs to be positive the physique is Lottie’s, and, sadly, it’s. There’s a chilling shot of grownup Misty staring on the physique that immediately shifts to teenage Misty (Samantha Hanratty) wanting over a teenage Lottie (Courtney Eaton) on the slab. The second shifts again to grownup Misty, who asks the coroner for Lottie’s private results, and although he’s initially hesitant to provide them to her, since she’s not household, he provides in after Misty brings up how sure objects often go lacking from the morgue and find yourself on public sale websites. Whereas he’s gone, she takes the chance to swab underneath Lottie’s nails for her personal proof and swipe the crime scene photographs for good measure.

Again at her home, Misty invitations the remaining Yellowjackets over, addressing Tai (Tawny Cypress) and Van (Lauren Ambrose) however purposefully ignoring Shauna (Melanie Lynskey). She tells them that she has some troublesome information to share after which drops the bomb that Lottie is useless, a lot to their shock and disbelief. Van is flabbergasted by the information, whereas Shauna can’t fairly imagine it is true since she simply noticed her the opposite day — so Misty pulls out the photographs as proof. She tells them the coroner dominated it an unintentional demise, and believes that Lottie fell down the steps, however Misty smells one thing fishy.

This instantly flags Shauna’s curiosity, and he or she begins grilling Misty about her whereabouts as a result of she left work early the day past. All of them agree that it could be very on-brand for Misty to kill Lottie after which name a gathering to speak about it. Shauna additionally factors out that if anybody had a motive to be mad at Lottie, it was Misty, as a result of if it wasn’t for her, Natalie’s demise (Juliette Lewis) might not have occurred. Livid in regards to the accusation, Misty guarantees that she’s going to search out out what occurred to Lottie, each for Lottie’s sake and since it’s what Natalie would have wished, earlier than storming out of her personal home in a match of anger.

Two Citizen Detectives Are On the Case in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3

When Misty is opening the bag of Lottie’s private results, she realizes her telephone is not among the many contents, and calls the coroner, who explains that Lottie did not have a telephone on her when she died. This prompts Misty to go on a aspect mission to search out it, and when she leaves, we see that Shauna is trailing her, clearly not believing that Misty is harmless. However it’s not simply Shauna who’s tailing Misty — somebody can be following Shauna, and fairly intently. She finally ends up dropping monitor of Misty to catch her pursuer within the act, inflicting them to rear-end her (Shauna’s van has been by a lot on this collection). To nobody’s shock, it’s Walter (Elijah Wooden) who’s following her. He explains that he has appointed himself Chief Citizen Detective in Lottie’s homicide case, which Shauna finds unusual however considerate. She’s undecided why he is following her, although, and it is a query he solutions with nothing however a figuring out look. Since she murdered Adam (Peter Gadiot), he assumes she killed Lottie as effectively. She throws this again in his face, saying that each he and Misty have a physique rely too, however Walter assures Shauna that Lottie’s homicide wasn’t Misty’s work, and suggests they be a part of forces.

Misty, in the meantime, has proven up at a swanky house constructing. She enters the basement, and it’s the identical place Lottie was discovered, full with crime-scene tape. Probably the most eerie half, although? The scratches Misty finds on the wall. After a little bit of nosing round, she talks to the person working the entrance desk and learns that he’s identified Lottie since she was only a child, that she and her household used to dwell within the penthouse, and that her dad really nonetheless lives there. Actually, Lottie had been staying together with her father for weeks. With this new info, Lottie heads as much as the penthouse and pretends to be a neighbor choosing up a bundle that was delivered by mistake. Surprisingly, this works, and Mr. Matthews lets her in, however tells her to be fast. His reminiscence isn’t all there, which permits Misty the chance to snoop round a bit, together with rummaging by the pockets of Lottie’s coat, the place she finds a receipt for a financial institution withdrawal of $50,000.

Earlier than she will be able to get a lot info out of Mr. Matthews, Misty discovers that Shauna and Walter are additionally on the house, undercover as web technicians. Shauna and Walter are attempting to hack Lottie’s web historical past, in the meantime Misty remains to be searching for her telephone, so each events try to sabotage each other in hopes of discovering proof first. It seems that Walter discovered the telephone first, and reset it, a discovery that angers Misty. However he assures her he cloned it earlier than doing so and that he’d be glad to share his findings together with her. However she’s not , she’s nonetheless indignant with him and isn’t letting up.

Shauna Says Goodbye to Lottie in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3

Exterior of the Matthews penthouse with Walter, Shauna wonders aloud why Lottie claimed she had nowhere to go as an alternative of going to her dad’s after being launched from psychiatric maintain. Walter says that perhaps Lottie simply wanted a pal, a relationship that Shauna describes as “sophisticated,” however to Walter it’s easy: She was both a pal or wasn’t, though within the case of Misty, he’d put her squarely within the “not pal” class. Shauna throws this again at him, saying he’s actually sabotaging Misty’s investigation, which received’t win her again. However Walter factors out that Misty loves a problem and he or she’ll respect what he’s doing. Shauna then counters that she wouldn’t be shocked if Walter had killed Lottie simply to provide Misty one thing to research as a type of twisted gesture. Walter adamantly denies having any position in Lottie’s demise and yanks out a single hair from his personal head as proof, asking the identical from Shauna as an indication of belief. He causes that if somebody is admittedly after the Yellowjackets, it’ll make it simpler to determine her stays in the event that they have already got her hair, however she’s firmly a no and storms off. Nevertheless, she leaves her pretend web technician hat behind, and Walter manages to recuperate a stray hair from it.

Again within the penthouse, Shauna stands in Lottie’s room and soaks all of it in. There are footage of her and the group on her nightstands, and the room is full of private touches of a life that’s now flickered out. She begins having flashbacks of Lottie, each teenage and grownup, and that’s when Mr. Matthews walks in, mistaking Shauna for his daughter and telling her to scrub her room, and Shauna decides to indulge him by taking part in alongside. The scene shifts views to Mr. Matthews and we see that, in his eyes, he’s speaking to teenage Lottie. He says that he’s making an attempt his greatest, however it’s not straightforward. Lottie shifts again into Shauna, who tells Mr. Matthews, “It’s exhausting to point out love the way in which we need to.” He nods, solemnly, after which suggests they order Chinese language meals and watch the brand new Martin Scorsese movie. Shauna agrees, however simply as Mr. Matthews is about to exit the room she pulls him into a protracted hug, and it feels as if she’s therapeutic herself — and, in a approach, saying goodbye to Lottie.

Tai (Briefly) Reunites with Sammy in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Episode 5

Later within the episode, Tai and Van are getting lunch, with Tai asking Van what she desires to order — as if nothing is fallacious and so they have not simply gotten some fairly life-altering information. Van, however, is rightfully shaken up, and wonders aloud how, after every part Lottie went by, she will be able to simply be gone. She then asks Tai the query many followers have been questioning: The place did she disappear to throughout that one-hour window? Within the earlier episode, Tai instructed Van to fulfill her on the park in a single hour — however, as Van factors out, it’s solely a 15-minute prepare trip. Tai says that she needed to scope every part out, and lease the horse and carriage, and so they have been in New York, which is simply chaotic by itself. Certainly Van can’t imagine she killed Lottie, can she? Van doesn’t get an opportunity to reply, as a result of Tai’s telephone rings, and he or she has to take it — as a result of, to her shock and ours, it’s Simone.

Tai and Van then meet Simone (Rukiya Bernard) and Sammy (Aiden Stoxx) (and Steve!) at a park, and boy, are tensions excessive. Tai thanks Simone for permitting her to see Sammy, however Simone shrugs her off and informs her it was Sammy who wished to see her. She’s not impressed, even much less so when Van sits on the bench subsequent to her. We get an amusing shot of Simone side-eyeing Van earlier than lastly addressing her with a chilly, “So that you’re her, huh?” However this interplay is reduce off earlier than it might get too juicy, as a result of Sammy abruptly storms away from Tai, and Simone is all too glad to indulge him and Steve and get the heck out of there. Afterward, Tai’s flashbacks reveal what occurred; when she approaches Sammy, he asks, “Are you not my mommy anymore?” to which Tai replies, “I’ll at all times be your mommy, it doesn’t matter what,” proper earlier than he walks off. Might this be a touch that Different Tai is now the one in management? We do know Sammy has a sixth sense for sniffing her out. Van then checks on Tai earlier than she will be able to dwell on the second any longer, and Tai asks her how she’d really feel a couple of change of surroundings. Van, by no means one to argue a lot, indulges her and agrees, desirous to ease Tai’s thoughts.

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The King of Hearts Is Drawn in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Episode 5

After being discovered responsible within the earlier episode, Coach Scott (Steven Krueger) is ready for his sentence, and he begs Akilah (Nia Sondaya) for details about what the group is planning on doing to him. She says she doesn’t know, and we later see the group discussing this precise factor. They know he’s going to die, it’s only a matter of how. Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) suggests he die by hearth, however Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) says that fireside is not a type of justice, it is torture, earlier than providing her personal suggestion: a firing squad, as a result of it’s extra humane. The query now could be who would be the one to make use of the gun. Shauna suggests Natalie as the perfect shot within the group, however Nat counters that will probably be at shut vary, so anybody can do it, and that they need to draw playing cards like they usually do. Van (Liv Hewson) proclaims that whoever pulls the King of Hearts is the one who will pull the set off, deeming it the “suicide king.”

As Van passes the playing cards round, she lingers when she will get to Tai (Jasmin Savoy Brown), giving her a glance earlier than transferring on. Certain sufficient, Tai is the one who pulls the King of Hearts, and he or she appears to be like petrified by the considered what it entails. Van proceeds to try to give her capturing classes out within the woods, however Tai is unfocused, shaking uncontrollably each time she prepares to intention the gun. In her view, it’s one factor to say that somebody ought to die, and one other to truly do it. That’s when Van comes up with a brand new concept: What if they’ll summon Different Tai? Possibly Tai’s sleepwalking persona, the extra uninhibited and ruthless aspect of her, might be keen to tug the set off.

In an effort to summon Different Tai, they’ve intercourse, as Van factors out that doing so has summoned Different Tai on different events. However once they end, Tai remains to be her common self, some extent made all of the extra clear when they stumble throughout a rabbit caught in certainly one of their traps and Van walks Tai by killing it, telling her to be current within the second. As Tai holds the rabbit, closing her eyes, she says she will be able to really feel its worry, and listen to its breath, after which she slits its throat. Immediately, the wind begins to blow fiercely, shaking the timber above them: one other sacrifice has been made to the wilderness. Van appears to be like at Tai expectantly, however there isn’t any signal of Different Tai in her eyes.

Akilah Sees a Means Out in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Episode 5

After Akilah confides in Lottie that she skilled a hallucination within the caves alongside Van and Shauna, Lottie encourages her to return to the caves. She’s additionally enlisted Travis (Kevin Alves) to come back with them for further security measures, believing the fuel within the caves to be a conduit the identical approach that the mushroom tea is. As they journey to the caves, Travis begins to get nervous and means that they name it off. Lottie is vehemently towards the thought as a result of Travis noticed Akilah in his imaginative and prescient, so certainly the wilderness desires to talk together with her. Travis shamefully agrees — as a result of he didn’t really see Akilah, he simply wished the wilderness to cease calling to him, and he feels particularly responsible when Akilah tells him that she trusts him.

They tie a rope round Akilah’s waist, reasoning that when it stops transferring, they’ll realize it’s time to come back in and get her. Nearly as quickly as she heads into the cave, Travis desires to tug her out, however Lottie makes him wait, and the rope stops transferring so that they spring into motion, finishing up an unconscious Akilah — solely, she doesn’t get up instantly. Travis angrily tells Lottie that her concept was unhealthy, however Lottie continues to hope over Akilah’s physique, begging the wilderness to “carry her again to us.” Akilah’s eyes start to flutter, and he or she awakens with a pant, telling them that she had a imaginative and prescient of herself standing on a cliff. She couldn’t see beneath her, however she might see one thing in entrance of her, so she stepped out onto it. It was Coach Scott, mendacity throughout the cliffs and appearing as a bridge between them for Akilah to stroll throughout. Lottie asks her if she was capable of see past, and Akilah reveals that it was darkish, however she might see metropolis lights and listen to automobile horns. She ought to have felt scared, however as an alternative, she felt hope.

Coach Scott Faces the Firing Squad in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Episode 5

As Coach sits within the animal pen, awaiting his destiny, Misty (Samantha Hanratty) arrives with dinner. It’s a giant fish, cooked to perfection, and there are even some greens on the aspect. Coach is impressed, even quipping that it’s not human meat and asking what he did to deserve such a flowery meal, and that’s when Misty tearfully tells him the others are coming for him at nightfall. She apologizes to him, telling him she did every part she might, and Coach says it’s OK as a result of he is aware of she tried. He places on a powerful entrance for her, however when she hugs him, he additionally sheds a tear, not able to be put to demise for one thing he didn’t do. Coach says that he’ll be remembered by them for being the one who tried to kill them, and in the actual world he’ll hardly be remembered in any respect. However Misty shakes her head, telling him that he was first rate, he was her first boyfriend (some extent he doesn’t agree with or approve of), and her first amputation. However most of all, she’s actually going to overlook him.

Certain sufficient, later that day, the group exhibits up and places a sack over Coach Scott’s head, dragging him out to the woods. Natalie removes Jackie’s necklace (Ella Purnell) from round her personal neck and locations it round Coach’s. He tells her she doesn’t have to do that, however she simply apologizes and walks away, unable to take a look at him. Coach then tries to plead with the group, calling them out for not having the ability to take a look at him as they put together to kill him. They then attempt to put the sack over his head once more, however he refuses, telling them that in the event that they’re going to do that, they’re going to must look him within the eyes. Gen (Vanessa Prasad) coldly informs him that he doesn’t deserve one thing like that and places the sack over his head anyway. Coach immediately will get very quiet as the load and gravity of the state of affairs sink in after which begins to plead with them, crying, sniffling, begging them to not do it. All of the whereas, Tai shakily factors the gun at him, barely capable of hold her personal eyes open. Then, immediately, her complete demeanor shifts, and he or she appears to be like to Van, telling her “It’ll be alright.” Their plan to summon Different Tai has labored. However earlier than Different Tai can pull the set off, Travis arrives and shoves Coach Scott out of the way in which, and Lottie knocks the gun out of Tai’s fingers. Lottie says they’ll’t kill Coach as a result of Akilah had a imaginative and prescient: Coach is their bridge house. He’s now off limits, and secure from hurt — or at the least, he thinks he’s.

Melissa and Shauna Are a Murderous Duo in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3

Early within the episode, Melissa (Jenna Burgess) approaches Shauna as she sits by the water, and Shauna informs her that she’s not in search of firm. Melissa merely drops off the reward she introduced her and goes to go away. It is a small bouquet, full with a knife holder that she’s carved an “S” into. Shauna asks why she even likes her, to which Melissa replies, “You say that like there’s nothing to love.” She then factors out that Jackie handled Shauna terribly, and Jeff (Jack DePew) handled her like a grimy secret. What’s extra, Shauna allow them to. However she’s modified now, and he or she’s not afraid of the unhealthy components of herself anymore — and Melissa likes that.

This transient interplay comes full circle later when, after Coach Scott is narrowly saved from demise, Melissa and Shauna go to him. He panics and says they’ll’t damage him, however they don’t acknowledge him. Shauna merely passes Melissa the knife and repeats her earlier phrases when she hesitates: “You shouldn’t be afraid of the unhealthy components, both.” With a brand new confidence, Melissa picks up Coach’s good leg and slices his Achilles heel, inflicting him to cry out in excruciating ache. It’s not sufficient to kill him, however it’s sufficient to make sure he received’t stroll once more any time quickly.

The 2 return to camp, the place everybody can hear Coach Scott’s screams, however all of them look surprisingly OK with it. It’s clear the punishment was mentioned beforehand, however Natalie nonetheless tells Shauna she doesn’t must take pleasure in it a lot, to which Shauna tells Natalie she doesn’t must act like such a saint. She then clasps Melissa’s bloody hand in her personal, all whereas Van stares on the two of them in confusion, and the pair stroll right into a shared hut as Coach’s screams proceed within the distance.

New episodes of Yellowjackets Season 3 premiere Fridays on Showtime.

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Yellowjackets Season 3 Episode 4 emotionally serves up justice for Coach Scott and seeks solutions for Lottie.

Launch Date

November 14, 2021

Community

Showtime, Paramount+ with Showtime

Professionals & Cons

• The complete firing squad scene is emotional and superbly achieved.
• Misty and Coach Scott’s heart-to-heart may be very touching.
• Akilah’s imaginative and prescient hints at imminent rescue.
• Shauna and Walter’s team-up makes for nice comedic moments.